Let “The Hunger Games” comparisons begin! And Shailene Woodley certainly has her work cut out for her in getting her Tris Prior to live up to Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen in her rage against the dystopian machine. As a “Divergent,” one of the few citizens too multidimensional to be pigeonholed into the government-defined factions of society, Tris must fight back after she is targeted for extinction by an evil Kate Winslet.

MUPPETS MOST WANTED

Picking up where the last film left off, Kermit’s authority over the other Muppets is usurped by Ricky Gervais’ huckster, who persuades the gang to go on a world tour. Unbeknownst to them, Gervais is plotting to replace Kermit with the frog’s evil look-alike, Constantine, and use the show as a front for a European crime spree.

BAD WORDS

In his feature directorial debut, Jason Bateman plays a man who finds a loophole in the rules of the national spelling bee and gleefully exploits it. Kathryn Hahn, Philip Baker Hall and Allison Janney co-star.

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME 1

In part one of Lars von Trier’s controversial two-part tale of moral debauchery, Charlotte Gainsbourg plays a sex addict beaten and left for dead in an alleyway. Stellan Skarsgard (from von Trier’s “Breaking the Waves”) comes to her rescue and takes her into his home, where – in a series of graphic flashbacks – she recounts the kinky sexual adventures of her youth. Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Christian Slater and Connie Nielsen co-star.

THE FACE OF LOVE

A widow (Annette Bening) meets a man (Ed Harris) who looks exactly like her deceased husband, and she falls instantly in love with him. Robin Williams co-stars and Arie Posin directs.

PARTICLE FEVER

Mark Levinson’s documentary provides a front-row seat to a scientific breakthrough involving the Large Hadron Collider, the most expensive experiment used to determine our planet’s origins.

THE LUNCHBOX

A frustrated middle-class Mumbai housewife and a stranger exchange increasingly intimate notes via lunchboxes, a daily ritual that eventually has repercussions.